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Mutterlos und unbändig neugierig verbringt Esme ihre Kindheit im Scriptorium, einem Gartenschuppen in Oxford, in dem ihr Vater und ein Team von Lexikographen das erste Oxford English Dictionary zusammenstellen. Esmes Platz ist unter dem Schreibtisch, ungesehen und ungehört. Heimlich liest sie die Zettel auf, die zu Boden flattern. Und sie erkennt, was die männlichen Gelehrten aussortieren: Wörter und Bedeutungen aus der Erfahrungswelt von Frauen. Als Esme ihre eigene Sammlung beginnt, keimt eine Entschlossenheit in ihr, die sie ihr ganzes Leben lang prägen wird.

A tale of survival, loss, and unlikely heroes bearing the undeserved burden of prophecy. A red fox named Claret has kept a distressing secret from his only son, Madcap, in the futile hope that destiny would somehow fail in collecting its due. In the blink of an eye, young Madcap is orphaned, driven from his home, and marked as the avatar of Prey in a centennial game of death against the Canidae god’s greatest Hunter: an adversary no strength could challenge and no swiftness could elude.

Dr. Patton Rowe swore he would never follow in the footsteps of the father he wholeheartedly resented. While on his deathbed, Rowe's father confesses his darkest secret: a disastrous North Pole excavation, twenty members of his excavation team killed... and the ancient, evil thing his team unearthed from its icy slumber. The prideful promise Dr. Rowe had made to himself is broken, and all of his efforts and money are poured into succeeding where his father failed.

Ulprec the mouse and Sombra the fierce feline have been forced from their home in South America. The unlikely duo must survive the perils of the jungle as they search for a way to put an end to 'the Burning.'

A first-hand account of the fall of Lucifer, the creation of the world Earth and its inhabitants as told by the unwilling demon Orsolyk Sixdoom.

Mutterlos und unbändig neugierig verbringt Esme ihre Kindheit im Scriptorium, einem Gartenschuppen in Oxford, in dem ihr Vater und ein Team von Lexikographen das erste Oxford English Dictionary zusammenstellen. Esmes Platz ist unter dem Schreibtisch, ungesehen und ungehört. Heimlich liest sie die Zettel auf, die zu Boden flattern. Und sie erkennt, was die männlichen Gelehrten aussortieren: Wörter und Bedeutungen aus der Erfahrungswelt von Frauen. Als Esme ihre eigene Sammlung beginnt, keimt eine Entschlossenheit in ihr, die sie ihr ganzes Leben lang prägen wird.

The laughter never comforts. It only reminds them that they’re not alone. Kate and Nick have found safety behind the walls of Fort Vanguard, but peace is fragile in a world crawling with the dead. Each journey beyond the gates is a fight for survival, plagued by the Infected and survivors alike. When Kate is captured, Nick descends into madness. To find her, he’ll carve through the wasteland, leaving pieces of his humanity behind with every kill. The dead are evolving. The living are losing themselves. And love might be the most dangerous disease of all.

An uninvited guest arrives at Nathaniel Oxleigh’s thirtieth birthday, offering the kind of deal most men would give their souls for. Before the young hotel mogul and his two best friends can collect the money, Oxleigh must endure nineteen torturous trials of body and mind.

On the Seventh Webway planet of Exteron, an unprecedented disaster wipes out two-thirds of the terraforming colonists. Two teams are sent to the pre-terrestrial world on behalf of the Galactic Human Alliance, mankind’s centralized governing structure, and FLORA, the terraforming super-conglomerate whose technology allowed mankind to inhabit new worlds. The prospect of future Human dominion over Exteron, a world hellbent on rejecting mankind, rests on this investigatory slew of mercenaries, statesmen, and corporate catspaws.